Collaboration/Teams
« Previous EntriesFive Impressive Real-Life Google Wave Use Cases
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010The Google Wave invite rollout extravaganza started more than a month ago. While in some respects the buzz around Google Wave has started to subside, the term is still constantly one of the top trending topics on Twitter, and new gadgets, extensions, and applications are now starting to appear on a daily basis.
Each day [...]
Google Wave, Real-Time Communication and Collaboration
Monday, January 4th, 2010Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
Like a cross between email, instant messaging and social networking, Google Wave has the potential to revolutionise the way [...]
Collaboration Done Right
Thursday, December 10th, 2009Click to play:
Morten Hansen, professor of management at the University of California at Berkeley,and author, “Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results,” is interviewed about collaboration for this podcast.
Top 10 Web Collaboration Tools (That Aren't Google Wave)
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009You’ve probably heard about a hard-to-get, hugely new service called Google Wave. Lest ye forget, there are plenty of web-based collaboration tools that don’t require learning a new way of speaking. Here are a few of our (mostly free) favorites.
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Google Wave Etiquette
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Here are some standards that are specific to Google Wave. Everything is still developing, but these seem to be the emerging norms.
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Is Your Team Too Big? Too Small? What's the Right Number?
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009When it comes to athletics, sports teams have a specific number of team players: A basketball team needs five, baseball nine, and soccer 11. But when it comes to the workplace, where teamwork is increasingly widespread throughout complex and expanding organizations, there is no hard-and-fast rule to determine the optimal number to have on each [...]
Google Wave: A Complete Guide
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009We have compiled key information, definitions, and links related to the launch of Google Wave. This in-depth guide provides an overview of Google Wave, discusses the terminology associated with it, details information on Google Wave applications, (i.e. the Twitter Wave app Twave), and goes over ways to keep yourself informed. We know you’re excited about [...]
Ten Rules That Govern Groups
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009Much of our lives are spent in groups with other people: we form groups to socialise, earn money, play sports, make music, even to change the world. But although groups are diverse, many of the psychological processes involved are remarkably similar.
Here are 10 insightful studies that give a flavor of what has been discovered about [...]
Is Gen Y Teamwork Killing Creativity?
Thursday, November 5th, 2009Generation Y is a kind generation. Our conservative lifestyles and penchants for quiet opinions have led us to work together happily with healthy doses of idealism. We are a teamwork generation, fully in line with each other.
Top-down management and the clutch of hierarchal authority no longer illustrate the strokes of success, but instead lead to [...]
Can Careless Words Kill a Team?
Friday, October 16th, 2009I had breakfast this morning with a friend who shared a cautionary tale about her boss.
In a recent staff meeting, someone proposed putting employee bios on the company’s website. The boss’s response? “I don’t want to do that, because I don’t want people to see how unqualified we are.”
Talk about a slap in the face [...]
